This section is geared towards helping you deploy this server properly for production use.

@powellc has put together an Ansible playbook for pypicloud, which can be found here:


Remember when you generated a config file in getting started? Well we can do the same thing with a different flag to generate a default production config file.

$ ppc-make-config -p prod.ini

You should make extra certain that is true if the server is visible to the outside world. This goes hand-in-hand with ensuring that your server always uses HTTPS. If you set up access control and don’t use HTTPS, someone will just sniff your credentials. And then you’ll feel silly.

WSGI Server

You probably don’t want to use waitress for your production server, though it will work fine for small deploys. I recommend using uWSGI with NGINX. It’s fast and mature.

After creating your production config file, it will have a section for uwsgi. You can run uwsgi with

$ pip install uwsgi
$ uwsgi --ini-paste-logged prod.ini

Now uwsgi is running, but it’s not speaking HTTP. It speaks a special uwsgi protocol that is used to communicate with nginx. Below is a sample nginx configuration that will listen on port 80 and send traffic to uwsgi.

server {
    listen 80;
    location / {
        include uwsgi_params;


When using access control in production, you may need pip to pass up a username/password. Do that by just putting it into the url in the canonical way: pip install mypkg -i


If you are using pypi.fallback = cache, make sure your uWSGI settings includes enable-threads = true. The package downloader uses threads.